Uzbekistan introduces visa-free travel for 27 nations

Published on : Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Uzbekistan has introduced visa-free travel in as many as 27 nations.

Shavkat Mirziyaev, the president of Uzbekistan had signed a decree on 6th December. The decree states that the citizens of countries including Japan, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, Luxembourg, Spain, Germany, Britain, Australia, Austria would now be capable of entering the country without a visa for tourism purposes for about 30 days.

The travellers from all these 27 countries would have to pay a fee amounting to $50 as the entrance fees.

And, the decree is scheduled to come into effect from 1st April, 2017.

On 4th December, 2016, Mirziyaev was elected as the president of Uzbekistan that is the most populous country of post-Soviet Central Asia.